That’s right. We’re on hiatus. All of The Modernist’s busy bees have become too busy to be sitting around at their computers because they are going to spend a lot of time playing video games getting to know more about the lucrative career skin creators have and with services from http://elitist-gaming.com and many other game […]

My wife’s grandmother just turned 77. Irma bears some of the requisite wrinkles and has to sleep with oxygen, but her presence is one of youth and awe. Although she’s aging, her body is still performing well and improving because of propionyl-l-carnitine She stays over at our house a few nights each month to help […]

Oscar Tuazon’s solo exhibition Sex contains a body of work that re-purposes the functionality of once operational objects into, well, something else. In some ways the work is destroyed, its original intention thwarted. But mainly, Tuazon’s intervention and de-construction of things like his bed, a mirror, and photographs establish a new meaning for these objects. […]

The Hayward Gallery’s Move: Choreographing You delivers exactly what the title promises – the audience becomes the players, moving in, on, around, and through a myriad of (mostly) participatory artworks. The traditional relationship between the performers and the audience completely collapses as our hands-on experience not only takes center stage but also quite literally activates […]

The week of art insanity that invariably surrounds the Frieze Art Fair began by walking through a sea of sunflower seeds for Tate Modern’s latest commission in The Unilever Series, Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds. The millions (seemingly billions) of individually hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds that have been poured into Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall nicely counteract […]

German artist Sinta Werner renders the purposeful functionality of architecture moot. Like predecessors Robert Smithson and Gordon Matta Clark, she uses buildings and landscapes as a material object to de-construct and, by doing so, re-constructs familiarity. She provides a post-modern reflection on contemporary environments providing a doubling and re-imagining of existing structures. Through her work […]

Do we really have two Blake Schwarzenbach posts in a row? Yes, we do. Blake just posted a thoughtful essay on the Forgetters blog about the now annual 9/11 “Tribute in Light” and one of the most divisive Septembers in recent memory. Now look, I would actually prefer the soft jolt of this nighttime beacon […]

We have finally let the recording of our boozy evening with Blake Schwarzenbach back in February 2009 out of the archives. Listen to Blake wax poetic about the perils of easy language, the challenges of teaching, the folly of fanboys, and yes… Jawbreaker, Jets to Brazil, and Thorns of Life. Keep up with future episodes […]

We finally decided to join the 90s and convert our old site to this newfangled “weblogging” technology all the kids are talking about. Over the next month, we’ll be slowly migrating all of the old content to this new WordPress site, and adding the backlog of The Modernist Society Podcasts we’ve been promising along with […]

Furniture and Naked People is an ongoing project in which we ask our favorite photographers to pair naked people with icons of modern design. Our fifth installment comes to us courtesy of South African photographer and filmmaker, Henrik Purienne. Productivity skyrockets when employees are seated comfortably in a Vertebra office chair, designed by Emilio Ambasz […]